Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education

Reflections from a Doctoral Course
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71022-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 6 g

Reihe: Bold Visions in Educational Research

This book advocates for the inclusion of arts-based research in doctoral education programs and, indeed, in educational programs at all levels. The doing of art to investigate ideas, situations, and experiences embraces bell hooks’ concept of education as the practice of freedom, a practice in which everyone can learn and every voice counts.

Through the use of photography, collage, painting, sculpture, textile arts and dance, 10 current and former doctoral students who had enrolled in an arts-based research course show and write about how arts-based methods enriched their educational experiences, celebrated their wholeness by dissolving the barriers between their scholar-artist-teacher-activist selves, and affirmed the inner artist even in those who doubted they had one. Furthermore, their work establishes that arts-based research can reveal dimensions of experience that elude traditional research methods.

Contributors are: Michael Alston, Kelly Bare, Shawn F. Brown, Nicholas Catino, Christopher Colón, Abby C. Emerson, Gene Fellner, Francie Johnson, Rendón Ochoa, Ingrid Romero, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fellner, Gene

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Arts-Based Research and the Practice of Freedom in Education

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

PART 1: The Practice of Arts-Based Research

1 Locked Up for Art

Shawn F. Brown

2 Finding My Way Back to Myself: Dismantling Internalized Structures of Oppression

Abby C. Emerson

3 Dance Me a Black Identity: An Exploration of Self-Definition and Transformation through Movement

Francie Johnson

4 The Schoolie

Michael Alston

5 Soñando en Comunidad: Reflections on Community, Participatory Art, and Abolitionist Teaching

Michelle Rendón Ochoa

6 Getting Closer to “Us” through Collaborative Art-Making

Natalie Willens and Ingrid Romero

7 When Tensions Arise: Auto-ethnography and Arts-Based Practices

Christopher Colón

8 Stay in Your Lane: An Arts-Based Research Journey

Kelly Bare

9 Zones of Proximal Comfort: Using Free Improvisation and Graphic Scores to Explore Difference and Dialogue through Active Music Making

Nicholas Catino

10 Towards a Theory of Arts-Based Methods as a Space of Wellbeing and Liberation

Mariatere Tapias

PART 2: Blog Posts: Conversations and Presentations that Took Place While the Class Was in Session

11 The Course and the Book: The Relationship of These Chapters to the Arts-Based Research Course

Kelly Bare, Chris Colón, Mariatere Tapias and Natalie Willens (zoom conversation, 12/12/22)

12 Body Mapping

Michelle Rendón Ochoa in discussion with Kelly Bare and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 3/2/22)

13 Body Mapping 2

Kelly Bare in discussion with Michelle Rendón Ochoa and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 3/2/22)

14 Natalie’s Blog: Hand Map/Care Work

Natalie Willens (Blog 2/19/22)

15 Taking Back Our Bodies and Places/Spaces

Mariatere Tapias (Blog Post 3/23/21)

16 Taking about the Schoolie

Michael Alston (zoom conversation with class, 7/21/22)

17 Photography and Wheatpasting

Chris Colón in discussion with Francie Johnson and Gene Fellner (zoom conversation, 7/21/22)

18 Graphic Scores, Free Improvisation, and Research

Nicholas Catino (Class Blog, 2/17/21)

19 Thinking about Whiteness

Abby Emerson (zoom conversation with Gene Fellner, 7/21/22)

20 Art Is Freedom

Shawn F. Brown, a composite of his speech from two presentations at the CUNY Graduate Center, 2018

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gene Fellner, Ph.D., City University of New York. His interests and publications focus on both the importance of arts-based research for teachers and students and on pedagogical practices that empower youth in underserved and oppressed communities to create positive transformational change in themselves and in the world.